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marove

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Registered: 2015-12-17

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] Gnome Classic does not start anymore

Hello together,

today my Gnome Classic stopped working. I watched a movie last night and when I tried to turn on the laptop this morning I can login (login screen still starts up perfect) but then there is just a cursor and the grey wallpaper. No gnome classic starts up. When I change the TTY, I see in htop, that gnome-shell consumes 100% CPU.

I can still choose another desktop (the normal gnome) and this still starts fine. I then thought there is something wrong with my config files. I renamed .config and .gnome but this didn't help. I even created a complete new user, but this user also can not start gnome-classic.

I also tried to reinstall gnome and gnome-shell (pacman -S).

What else can I do? Please note: I'm pretty new to arch, I just installed it a few month ago. Please be gentle to me . It would be great if someone can help me with this problem. I really like gnome-classic .

Regards
Marove

Last edited by marove (2015-12-17 13:15:18)

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Classic does not start anymore

did you check journal for any errors?
did you update your system before last shutdown? In that case, check pacman logs for what got updated.

marove

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Registered: 2015-12-17

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Classic does not start anymore

Hello ooo,

thank you for your very fast answer. I made an upgrade but there was a restart in between. Theses packages were updated:

http://pastebin.com/Du9JQwG4

Can you tell me which log I should check? Unfrotunately I'm not very familiar with gnome and how it works.

Regards

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Classic does not start anymore

Pretty much everything should get logged in systemd journal.

Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Classic does not start anymore

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=206222

marove

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Registered: 2015-12-17

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Classic does not start anymore

Chazza thank you so much! This was the solution.

For everyone with the same problem:
My solution was downgrading the package "ibcroco from 0.6.10-1 to 0.6.9-1". For this, download the package and then "sudo pacman -U packagename".

This is a great community . Thanks!

Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Classic does not start anymore

No probs. Please don't forget to make as [SOLVED] - this can be done by editing your first post just in case you don't know.

surefire

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Registered: 2015-12-16

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Classic does not start anymore

update libcroco 0.6.11 fixed